Major Testbed

﻿Solar Powered Ground Source Heat Pump System

In this test rig, a ¾-ton water-to-air GSHP is connected to two 60-feet deep wells. A group of solar PV panels of 1.12 kW is connected to two 800 Ah battery banks, which are used to power the GSHP system and a 0.27 kW DC powered well pump. The National Instruments (NI) Data Acquisition System (DAQ) is combined with a chassis system which has 5 hybrid slots, 3 PXI Express slots (up to 250MB/s per-slot bandwidth and 1.75 GB/s system bandwidth) and two input modules.